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Where can I ask questions about Android? • Does Android have feature X so I don have to reinvent the wheel?

April 26, 2017Android feature reinvent wheel

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Where can I ask questions about Android? • Does Android have feature X so I don have to reinvent the wheel?

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Where can I ask questions about Android? There are a few official google groups that have been set up to discuss issues with Android. Before asking, please search through the archives of those groups to see if your issue has been addressed already. Also, it seems that the search being used in google groups is a bit conservative. If you search for “unit test” it is not going to find posts for “unit testing”. So you might want to try different ways of phrasing your issue. Does Android have feature X so I don’t have to reinvent the wheel? It seems that the android.jar that comes with the SDK already has a bunch of packages to handle the most common needs. Please browse through the package list to see what can be done out of the box. It is my understanding that the Android API is a subset of the J2SE 5.0 API. So you should be looking at this list instead of the J2SE 5.0 API list since not everything might be supported and there might be subtle implementation issues between them.